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Tagged with hard-drive-failure windows
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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Why does Windows 10 stop seeing an internal hard drive while I am using a program on it?
Fundamental question: is my drive failing and I should clone the information off it onto a new (preferably SSD) hard drive?
The computer is running Windows 10.0.19041 Build 19041, with a Gigabyte H370 ...
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Harddisk with >10k bad sectors
My computer has two drive : SSD for C drive ,HDD for D drive
My Windows OS is installed in C drive
Recently ,when I click the folders ,the File Manager always hangs. I cant even turn off the computer (...
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows
This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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Windows 10 Storage Spaces recover data from 2-way mirror
I got some serious problem with my backup:
Due to faulty power supply, 3 out of my 4 HDDs died.... Since I did set up a storage pool with "2-way mirroring", I was quite optimistic to recover most of ...
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Hard Drive suddenly became unresponsive, recovered on reboot. What to do next?
So I have a desktop PC with an SSD and an HDD. Windows 10 is installed on the SSD, all my data is on the HDD. Today while I was playing a game, it suddenly became unresponsive. At the same time, the ...
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Booted into black screen with a flashing under score
I am having a problem with my computer, a black screen with a flashing under score.
I was updating my system yesterday, then I let it update for awhile to complete and then switch it off. After ...
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Get number of reallocated sectors on harddrive without S.M.A.R.T
Is that possible? There is no S.M.A.R.T. information retrievable (used HD Tune to check that).
The background is that I want to check if the number of reallocated sectors on the harddrive changes ...
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Repairing hard disk when Windows installation disk won't boot
I'm trying to recover some data from a faulty hard disk with Windows installed on it (on which Windows won't even boot). I have tried so far:
Booting to Ubuntu live USB stick and running ntfsfix (...
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Software is showing that my hard disk has 3 days to live. Can I repair it?
Hard Disk Sentinel is showing that my hard disk has 3 days to live. Can I repair it?
This is what I got after a disk check from Windows:
Any ideas?
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Windows detected a hard disk problem — what should I do?
I'm using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, I'm getting windows error popups like this one for about 3 days, multiple times a day:
This Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD502HJ 500 GB is about 2 years old and I already ...
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